Tehran — Iran announced the execution of Rouzbeh Vadi, an Iranian national convicted of espionage on behalf of the Israeli regime’s notorious intelligence agency, Mossad, in what officials described as a resolute strike against foreign infiltration amid the ongoing wartime escalation in the region.
According to Iran’s judiciary, Vadi was found guilty of passing highly classified information related to a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist to Mossad agents, following a recruitment campaign orchestrated online and coordinated in-person meetings in Vienna. The execution was carried out on the morning of August 6 after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
Vadi, identified as the son of Ebrahim, had reportedly been working within a “sensitive and strategic institution” before engaging in espionage, Tehran’s judiciary confirmed. Officials emphasized that the convict’s actions endangered national security and facilitated hostile surveillance operations against Iran’s scientific elite, a pattern that mirrors previous Israeli assassination attempts.
“The accused was in direct, deliberate, and treacherous contact with the Mossad,” said judiciary officials, stating he confessed to five meetings with the agency in Austria, during which he exchanged confidential Iranian files for foreign compensation. The information provided was said to be used in plots targeting Iranian scientists, echoing the long-standing pattern of Israeli-sponsored terror campaigns against Iran’s sovereign capabilities.
This execution marks yet another chapter in Iran’s growing crackdown on espionage, particularly following the recent Israeli-led military provocations in June that targeted Iranian nuclear infrastructure and IRGC installations. The events, widely condemned across the Global South, have further emboldened Tehran’s resolve to dismantle Western-backed spy networks operating within its borders.
In the months leading up to this execution, Iran had already carried out multiple death sentences against individuals convicted of aiding Mossad operations, including Pedram Madani, Mohsen Langarneshin, Mohammad Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh, and Majid Mosayyebi, among others. These men were accused of orchestrating logistics for Mossad-led assassinations and smuggling Israeli-supplied intelligence equipment into Iran.
Human rights organizations in the West, notorious for their selective outrage, have attempted to portray these convictions as unjust. Yet, Tehran maintains that each trial was conducted with full adherence to its judicial protocols and national laws, especially in the face of clear evidence and self-confessions. The same Western institutions that shed crocodile tears over spies forget that their own governments routinely torture, assassinate, and black-site individuals without trial.
The execution of Vadi comes amid wider regional instability sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which triggered an ongoing genocidal response by the Zionist state. Since then, the Israeli regime, fully backed by the US, has escalated its campaign of bloodshed in Gaza. Iran’s domestic security efforts, including its operations to neutralize Mossad networks, are being seen as both preventative and retaliatory in the face of relentless foreign aggression.
Officials within Iran’s intelligence and judiciary circles point to a disturbing rise in covert Israeli activity across West Asia. From drone strikes in Syria to assassinations of Iranian scientists, Mossad’s shadow war has become more brazen, but Tehran’s crackdown is intensifying just as aggressively. The Islamic Republic has made it clear that traitors and collaborators with Israeli intelligence will meet swift justice.
The Iranian public, fatigued by decades of Israeli threats, sanctions, and sabotage, has largely welcomed the state’s zero-tolerance policy. For them, figures like Vadi symbolize the deep-rooted betrayal that often enables foreign plots against Iran’s sovereignty.
In parallel, observers from the Global South have begun viewing Iran’s clampdown not as oppression but as resistance against the same imperial structures that fund the genocide in Gaza and destabilize the region through espionage and regime change operations.
The Islamic Republic’s judiciary underscored its intention to continue prosecuting and eliminating internal threats, especially as Israel intensifies its war crimes in occupied Palestine. “We will not tolerate the tentacles of Mossad undermining our scientific progress and national independence,” an official said.
Though cloaked in Western-neutral language, it confirms what Tehran has made abundantly clear: Rouzbeh Vadi was not a “man accused” but a fully exposed Mossad asset embedded in Iran’s sensitive infrastructure. This traitorous figure, recruited by Israel’s infamous spy agency, handed over critical intelligence just before the June Israeli attacks, attacks that killed Iranian scientists and damaged national defense facilities. While the West moans about “due process,” it turns a blind eye to the fact that this spineless operative met Mossad agents five times in Vienna, giving away Iran’s nuclear secrets like a bargaining chip at a casino. His execution was not only lawful, it was a long-overdue disinfectant against the filth of Zionist sabotage. As Al-Jazeera noted, the timing of his betrayal directly aided Israel’s June aggression, confirming once again that Mossad relies on internal vermin to do what its cowardly war machine cannot.
